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US: CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for children under five
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 19 (ANI): The US regulators, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday authorized and recommended the first COVID-19 vaccines for kids under the age of five.
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US approves Pfizer, Moderna Covid-19 vaccines for youngest children
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 17 (ANI): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized emergency use of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 to include use in children down to 6 months of age.
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Hepatitis A outbreak in US, Canada sparked by contaminated organic strawbe
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 30 (ANI): The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urged customers to throw out any uneaten batches of organic strawberries as they may be the cause of the multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the US and Canada.
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Over 1 million youth started smoking daily, most used JULL e-cigarettes: U
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
San Diego (California) [US] May 30 (ANI): Nearly 2,300 adolescents and young adults became new tobacco smokers in the US over the period of 2017-2019 with the total number of users under 21 years of age vaping (using e-cigarettes) rising to over 1 million by 2019, accordingly to new publishe
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FDA removes hold on clinical trial for phase 2,3 for COVAXIN-BBV152 says
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Malvern (Pennsylvania) [US], May 23 (ANI): Biotechnology company Ocugen on Monday announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted the clinical hold on the Company's Phase 2, 3 clinical trials for COVAXIN™ (BBV152).
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US FDA limits use of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine over blood clo
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday said that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine that has been administered to more than 18 million Americans can potentially cause "life-threatening blood clots", and thereby warranted "limiting the authorized us
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FDA authorizes first-ever breathing test for detecting COVID-19 infection
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 16 (ANI): The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the first test, InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer, to detect COVID-19 through the breath for emergency use.
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FDA grants Direct Biologics regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT)
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Austin (Texas) [US], April 13 (ANI/PRNewswire): Direct Biologics, an innovative biotechnology company with a groundbreaking extracellular vesicle (EV) platform drug technology, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded their EV drug product ExoFlo with a Regenera
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Moderna requests FDA to authorize second COVID-19 booster shot for adults
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 18 (ANI/Xinhua): American biotechnology company Moderna submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday for emergency use authorization (EUA) on a fourth dose of its COVID-19 vaccine for adults 18 years of age and older, who already recei
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Zydus receives final approval from USFDA to market Colestipol Hydrochlorid
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], March 15 (ANI): Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. has received final approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to market Colestipol Hydrochloride Tablets in the strength of 1mg (US RLD: Colestid), said the pharmaceutical company on Monday.
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Zydus receives final approval from USFDA to market drug used to relieve ch
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI): Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. has received final approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to market Nitroglycerin Sublingual tablets used to relieve chest pain in people who have certain heart conditions, said the pharmaceutical company
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COVID-19: FDA gives clearance to Covaxin for clinical trials in adults in
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 7 (ANI): Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin has been given clearance for clinical trials in adults by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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